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	Claes Oldenburg Videos - Claes Oldenburg Video Clips
		For show times and previews of other great programs go to Ovation TV, the Fine Arts and Entertainment channel, now on Direct TV and Dish Network.The work of sculptor Claes Oldenburg, one of America's wittiest and most popular artists, is a celebration of the everyday.
		This underrated documentary is a romp through the art scene of the '60swhen acclaimed artists such as James Rosenquist and Frank Stella were puttering around downtown Manhattan, scraping together loose change for canvas, paint and beer.
		Claes Oldenburg Icebag Scale B1971 Ed: 16/25One of Claes Oldenburg's famous scculptures in action, inflating and de flating, at the MCA Chicago's Benifet Auction Preview.artoridiocy.blogspot.com
	www.searchforvideo.com /entertainment/artists/claes-oldenburg (418 words)

	Claes Oldenburg Online
		Claes Oldenburg at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Claes Oldenburg in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		Claes Oldenburg at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Claes Oldenburg at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. Several documents related to Claes Oldenburg's art
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	Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen
		Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen began their artistic collaboration with the Trowel I, sited in the sculpture park of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands.
		The artists' choice of subject and treatment is born out of their shared impressions of the works' proposed setting and therefore each sculpture is unique and becomes an emblem of its particular place.
		This is the official website of the artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.
	www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com (188 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Oldenburg - Biography
		Claes Oldenburg was born January 28, 1929, in Stockholm.
		Oldenburg realized his first outdoor public monument in 1967; Placid Civic Monument took the form of a Conceptual performance/action behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with a crew of gravediggers digging a six-by-three-foot rectangular hole in the ground.
		Oldenburg was honored with a solo exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1969, and with a retrospective organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1995.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_121.html (478 words)

	School Arts - Claes Oldenburg: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
		Born in Sweden in 1929, Claes Oldenburg was brought to America as an infant and raised in Chicago.
		Oldenburg's approach differs from that of pop artists like Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein; his idiosyncratic approach to his subjects stems in part from his affinities to the earlier movements of dada and surrealism.
		Oldenburg's New Haven studio was home to a sizeable mouse population; thus, the artist quipped, "a rodent subject was unavoidable." But the motif actually emerged in the early sixties as a mouse mask for a performance called Moveyhouse.
	www.nga.gov /education/schoolarts/oldenburg.htm (1353 words)

	Claes Oldenburg Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oldenburg's artistic success was due in part to his irreverent humor and incisive social commentary.
		Claes Thure Oldenburg was born January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, Sweden.
		Claes Oldenburg graduated from the Latin School in Chicago in 1946 and then enrolled at Yale University, receiving a B.A. degree in 1950.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/claes-oldenburg (1199 words)

	Claes Oldenburg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oldenburg himself has stated, "The problem has always been how to make the print statements as personal as the drawing statements." Viewing the printed image as a special class of drawing, the artist has tried to translate drawing's direct and uninhibited energy into his printed work as much as possible.
		Oldenburg is also drawn to the multiplicity of his printed imagery as a metaphor for a consumer-oriented culture.
		Oldenburg claims ownership of all this material, notwithstanding that some of it falls outside traditional art boundaries, and refers to it as his "printed stuff".
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	Artist: CLAES OLDENBURG (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden and his occupation is an artist.
		Claes Oldenburg is with the Pop Art movement in New York.
		Oldenburg started out with his "Ray Gun Theater" in 1956, a collection of objects shaped like ray guns in science fiction movies.
	www.wellpinit.wednet.edu /cla-williams/artist_oldenburg.php (250 words)

	Claes Oldenburg - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Claes Oldenburg - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Oldenburg (Germany), city in northwestern Germany on the Hunte River, in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), near Bremen.
		Oldenburg, Claes Thure: picture, Soft Drum Set-Ghost Version
	encarta.msn.com /Claes_Oldenburg.html (120 words)

	Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, Bio
		The son of a Swedish diplomat, Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Stockholm.
		After attending Yale University from 1946 to 1950, Oldenburg returned to Chicago, where he worked as a cub newspaper reporter and took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago.
		Oldenburg's practice of situating objects within an environment, sometimes created as a context for theater, has remained to the present day a mainstay of his artistic approach.
	www.artnetweb.com /oldenburg/bio.html (215 words)

	Claes Oldenburg - pop art free essay, term paper and book report
		In Claes Oldenburg’s essay “I am for an art” he summarises what he thinks art should be, in over a hundred demands each starting with “I am for an art” He writes that anything and everything should and can be art.
		Oldenburg wishes, in his writing for this to be different.
		Claes Oldenburg, son of a Swedish diplomat was born in Stockholm and moved to New York with his family at a very early age.
	www.freeessays123.com /essay8294/claesoldenburgpopart.html (478 words)

	Artist Detail » About “Claes Oldenburg” » PaceWildenstein
		Oldenburg and van Bruggen were married in 1977 and have continued their artistic collaboration for over 25 years.
		Claes Oldenburg Drawings, 1959-1977, was the largest exhibition since 1977 dedicated to Oldenburg's early works, and Claes Oldenburg with Coosje van Bruggen Drawings, 1992-1998, featured the pair's larger-scale collaborative works on paper.
		Oldenburg and van Bruggen currently live and work in downtown Manhattan, in California, and on a centuries-old estate in the Loire Valley, France, whose natural surroundings and cultural history have continued to inspire their work.
	www.pacewildenstein.com /Artists/ViewArtist.aspx?guid=538fe305-f7e0-424c-8705-230af83dee09 (369 words)

	Claes Oldenburg: Portrait of a Painter
		Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm, Sweden on January 29, 1929.
		But as I did my research on Claes Oldenburg, I learned that all my feelings before were wrong.
		Claes Oldenburg takes and everyday item, like a toothbrush, and makes it into art.
	www.richeast.org /htwm/artists/TJ/oldenburg.html (510 words)

	Claes Oldenburg-Personal Reflection (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While Oldenburg’s desire is a bit of a pipe dream and at best if people began to question it would only a small victory amongst a much bigger problem.
		Oldenburg has an affinity for that which is shunned by the bourgeois.
		Oldenburg is confident in that which brings him pleasure and rewards.
	shakti.cc.trincoll.edu /~awertz/oldenburg/reflection.html (745 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Claes Oldenburg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the event that you’re too busy to notice the little things in life, sculptor Claes Oldenburg has made them big for you.
		Oldenburg is most famous for his monuments to absurdity, such as the enormous spoon and cherry sculpture that shades the lawn of the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis.
		During the 1960s, Oldenburg became involved in Happenings, dealing mostly with props and environments.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=352 (345 words)

	Claes Oldenburg (1929 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Claes Oldenburg was born in Sweden in 1929 and became an American citizen in 1953.
		Oldenburg moved to New York in 1956 and joined a group of artists who were united in their distaste for Abstract Expressionism.
		Claes Oldenburg, Untitled (Ice Cream Cones), between pgs.
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	Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, Bio (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The son of a Swedish diplomat, Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Stockholm.
		After attending Yale University from 1946 to 1950, Oldenburg returned to Chicago, where he worked as a cub newspaper reporter and took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago.
		Oldenburg's practice of situating objects within an environment, sometimes created as a context for theater, has remained to the present day a mainstay of his artistic approach.
	artnetweb.com /oldenburg/bio.html (215 words)

	Claes Oldenburg Summary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) is a sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large versions of everyday objects.
		Oldenburg was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of a Swedish diplomat.
		Many of Oldenburg's giant sculptures of mundane objects elicited public ridicule before being embraced as whimsical, insightful, and fun additions to public outdoor art.
	www.bookrags.com /Claes_Oldenburg (1688 words)

	Claes Oldenburg
		Filmed on location at the artists' studio, where we observe Oldenburg drawing, and at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, as they install an exhibition.
		Claes and Coosje address the critics who question the nature of their collaborative work and Coosje's contribution to it.
		Critic Hilton Kramer acknowledges Oldenburg's skills and talent but nevertheless feels he is contributing to "sculpture pollution" with his large-scale public works.
	librarymedia.org /visual/titles/oldenburg.htm (188 words)

	Joel's Blog - Claes Oldenburg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oldenburg began a series of sewn and fabricated versions of ordinary household objects, later visualized in fantastic scale as "Proposed Colossal Monuments" for urban settings all over the world.
		Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen began their artistic collaboration with the Trowel I, sited in ~ the Netherlands.
		In the process, Oldenburg and van Bruggen have freed Pop art from gallery walls and delivered it to the masses.
	www.joelsblog.net /index.php?title=claes_oldenburg (339 words)

	Indiana State University : Permanent Art Collection :Claes Oldenburg
		Oldenburg relies on the banality of image combined with the absurdity of scale and use of material.
		Oldenburg credits French artist, Bernard Buffet, and the environmental art “Happenings” of Allan Kaprow of the 1950’s.
		His sculptures of everyday objects increased in size ten fold in some cases are viewed as whimsical, yet pointing to a greater need of understanding to today’s throw-away culture.
	web.indstate.edu /gallery/claesoldenburg.htm (103 words)

	Claes Oldenburg-Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1929 to a Swedish diplomat.
		What Oldenburg gleaned from the happenings was the idea of breaking barriers between art and actual experience.
		They produced and installed large scale outdoor sculptures across the US and Europe, some of which are the Giant Closepin in Philadelphia, the Spoonbridge and Cherry in Minneapolis, and Bicyclette Ensevlie (buried bicycle) in Paris.
	shakti.trincoll.edu /~awertz/oldenburg/biography.html (329 words)

	Claes Oldenburg at AllExperts
		There he met a number of artists, including Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Allan Kaprow, whose Happenings incorporated theatrical aspects and provided an alternative to the abstract expressionism that had come to dominate much of the art scene.
		Perhaps the most memorable aspects of Oldenburg's works are the colossal sculptures that he has made.
		This brash, often humorous approach to art, was at great odds with the prevailing sensibility that, by its nature, art dealt with "profound" expressions or ideas.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/cl/claes_oldenburg.htm (555 words)

	Claes Oldenburg - MSN Encarta
		Oldenburg, Claes Thure, born in 1929, American sculptor, who was a pioneer of pop art.
		Claes Thure Oldenburg was born in Stockholm, where his father...
		Art: I am for an art that tells you the time of…
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575096/Claes_Oldenburg.html (91 words)

	Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen Drawings (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Seventy-four works by Oldenburg from the 1960s, early in his career, will be on view in the Ames Family Gallery on the Museum's fifth floor.
		Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, Sweden.
		A catalog accompanying the exhibition includes a foreword by Maxwell L. Anderson, an introduction by Janie C. Lee, an interview with Oldenburg, reproductions of all 92 drawings in the exhibition and a checklist.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/3aa/3aa284.htm (820 words)

	Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen and their REALLY BIG art!
		Claes Oldenburg (from Sweden) and Coosje van Bruggen (from the Netherlands) started working together in the 1970s.
		Oldenburg and van Bruggen take ordinary objects as starting points for their sculptures on a monumental scale.
		Shuttlecock/Blueberry Pies I and II Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
	educ.queensu.ca /~fmc/december2004/Oldenburg.html (650 words)

	Video- Oldenburg: Claes Oldenburg
		Claes Oldenburg's over-scaled sculptures based on food and other domestic items brought him to prominence in the 1960s as one of the foremost exponents of the Pop Art movement.
		Oldenburg, who was born in Sweden and raised in the United States, has since 1977 collaborated with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, on a series of large-scale projects.
		The full range of Oldenburg's work is covered: from his soft sculptures, such as Giant Ice-Cream Cone and Giant BLT, to his proposals for colossal public monuments, to his accomplished drawings
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